Polygonal Forest

Introduction

Four paths of sensorial contemplation will take you through the different visual and symbolic layers that compose this virtually analogous forest, to explore its multiple sound, visual, biological, historical, cultural and conceptual dimensions, and reflect on our role as humans upon entering these ecosystems; not as external bodies but as integral components of the rich interrelations coexisting in these sacred natural spaces.

How do future generations perceive the current state of our surroundings? What can their visual culture and imagery foretell of future acts of transformation? These multiple formats, sounds, colors, words and emotions are the result of an open-call for young artists under the age of 30 during July 2021, under the premise “to question and reflect on the visual representation of a forest”. The participants were selected and curated by renown Chilean artists and cultural managers working in the fields of digital art, more-than-human explorations, and visual culture: Nicole L’Huillier, Cristóbal Cea and Valentina Montero.

YOUNG ARTISTS CONTEST•

1st Place

mp_tr3

Martina Mella Yáñez

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Field-recording and procedural programming / Blender, Audacity, Touchdesigner

Martina Mella Yáñez

An audiogenerative forest, a seed of a procedural map inhabitable in a cyber-space of post-industrial territories; in the middle of a no-man's-land, yet privatized for all.

2nd Place

El bosque de Berkeley

Sandra Reyes

El bosque de Berkeley

Videopoem created with BigGAN + CLIP, algorithmic tool that generates images from texts

Sandra Reyes

A reinterpretation of the words of 18th century Irish philosopher George Berkeley as follows: 'The déjà vu that goes unnoticed sounds like the tree that falls in the middle of an uninhabited forest' through generative images that fluctuate to the rhythm of textual coordinates.

3rd Place

Simbiontes I

Verónica Rodriguez

Simbiontes I

Video collage

Verónica Rodriguez

If we look closer and deeper, we realize that our own body harbors and is made up of thousands of organisms, they are forests.

Honorable Mention

Refugio para el Queule

Valentina Riquelme

Refugio para el Queule

3D animation/blender

Valentina Riquelme

A space to give refuge to the Queule, to be studied and preserved, in some way, in the form of a 3D model within the unnatural and artificial virtual world.

Honorable Mention

Rodal

Francisco Silva

Rodal

Pixel art

Francisco Silva

A place of identical artificial bodies that are life and product at the same time, an almost monochrome space of mathematical composition. A forest in which only a child could deposit their memories.

Al sur del Gran Tryángulo: El retorno de El Dorado

Jan Araújo

Al sur del Gran Tryángulo: El retorno de El Dorado

Gif/Photoshop

Jan Araújo

An intertwining of cosmic and ecological knowledge of indigenous worlds that embody an environmental ethic and a syntropic management of biodiversity. Its limitless borders that encompass the planet and the Pleiades, are reduced to tiny territories by the force of law of Western geopolitics.

Hacer del formato la tierra que habita

Neo Felipos

Hacer del formato la tierra que habita

Digital illustration, animation, Photoshop

Neo Felipos

Their virtuality is their reality and therefore ours.

Timeline millenarie

Valentina Arteaga Nova

Timeline millenarie

3D animation

Valentina Arteaga Nova

What would a journey through time be like inside a thousand-year-old araucaria? As a child I imagined that trees had feelings, because they taught me to greet a tree, the litre.

WARMING WAVE

TRINA & IK'TEIN (Collab) TRINA (Trinidad Vildósola) / Ki Niet A IK’tein (Sebastián Encina)

WARMING WAVE

Premiere, Photoshop, Audacity

TRINA & IK'TEIN (Collab) TRINA (Trinidad Vildósola) / Ki Niet A IK’tein (Sebastián Encina)

The forest is an organic process that allows the closing of a cycle and the opening of another, in contrast our connection lowered its inorganic and linear origin, it becomes garbage, waste, corpses, retentions, a wave of accumulation with clogged lungs. The inorganic becomes rotten.

Solsticio de invierno

Luna Laffx/Luna Valentina Morales

Solsticio de invierno

3D animation/blender

Luna Laffx/Luna Valentina Morales

Exploring the boundary between the digital and the natural means that the content has an immanent reason for being.

Recorridos

Bruna Ginocchio

Recorridos

Image manipulation with scanner and Photoshop

Bruna Ginocchio

A space of roads, immense or imperceptible roads, roads that have taken a long time to be drawn or that have not stopped, intersecting paths that, marking the space, speak of how transformation results in unity.

Trees of Translation: Magnolia

Ignacio Pérez, Ilana Levin, Simón López, Victoria Ramírez

Trees of Translation: Magnolia

Visualization of poetry translation processes with Processing and Premiere.

Ignacio Pérez, Ilana Levin, Simón López, Victoria Ramírez

Just like trees, whose shape emerges from their branches, a text in the same way has branches shaped by the insertions and deletions of characters in the path of its writing.

Piayu/Te lo pido

Pablo Ochoa Concha

Piayu/Te lo pido

Digital video-montage of images taken in Isla Rey, Valdivia and online

Pablo Ochoa Concha

Under my condition of Shampurria I live with the forest from a cosmogonic dialogue; interacting, offering, and understanding that my life does not exist without the ngen (natural energies) that regulate the territory under its own intelligence.

PARA SIEMPRE.

Pedro Rodríguez

PARA SIEMPRE.

Printing of 35mm analog photographs on paper intervened with watercolor, pencils and water and digitized, color correction in Lightroom, edited in Davinci Resolve software

Pedro Rodríguez

This little corner of the world, away from all contact with society: a place of gratitude for life, my surroundings, experiences and freedom.

Raiz ancestral

Makarena Trinidad Kramcsák Muñoz

Raiz ancestral

Ink with digital painting

Makarena Trinidad Kramcsák Muñoz

The root is the foundation, origin and source. Human beings arise from the roots, and led by instinct, use this energy to create.

Luz

Francisca Miles

Luz

TouchDesigner, Photoshop

Francisca Miles

The forest is an artificial fantasy and the light is the digital ecology on which it depends, without it, it does not exist.

K'terrnen

Michael Angelo Yáñez

K'terrnen

Digital photomontage

Michael Angelo Yáñez

To know the history of our territory and origin through the imperishable and unchangeable of the trees; observe a landscape and think that in a previous period, someone probably saw what I did, yet in that same period humans and nature could coexist in complete harmony.

Floresta

Rocio Mercado Jara

Floresta

Photography and digital editing

Rocio Mercado Jara

I think of the forest as a monster that wants to protect itself. The climate trembles, even more when cutting the trees. Extractivist human, the lung of the womb wants to breathe. What if we stop trying to dominate it? How do we relate technology to nature?

El espectro de la vida

Alejandro Martínez Orellana - Bastián Díaz Orellana

El espectro de la vida

Digital illustration, Procreate and Photoshop

Alejandro Martínez Orellana - Bastián Díaz Orellana

Our place is within this network, we are matter and we must join the action for a reaction that perpetuates life.

El costo del deterioro

Claudio Saitz-Armstrong

El costo del deterioro

3D animation/blender, video burnout and chroma/DaVinci Resolve and Premiere

Claudio Saitz-Armstrong

For a city person like me, imbued in the fast-paced hustle and bustle of concrete and surrounded by luminous screens, the forest seems to be another dimension, a parallel world where everything goes at its own pace, and where there are thousands of wonderful details to capture. However, there is always the threat of one world consuming the other.

Qué tan alto ascienden las ramas/ qué tan profundo crecen las raíces

Colectivo Hebras ( Javiera Antonia Gómez Cerda, Constanza Valentina Silva Rosales, Francisco Andrés Ipinza Burgos, Paulina Elisa Jara Cáceres)

Qué tan alto ascienden las ramas/ qué tan profundo crecen las raíces

Video and multiple softwares

Colectivo Hebras ( Javiera Antonia Gómez Cerda, Constanza Valentina Silva Rosales, Francisco Andrés Ipinza Burgos, Paulina Elisa Jara Cáceres)

Roots as a communication bridge, from which the visuality of the work arises as well as our work process as a collective.

Campiña arpillera

(Hypereikon Lab) Carlos Vásquez, María Constanza Lobos and Sebastián Rojas

Campiña arpillera

Machine learning, stylegan

(Hypereikon Lab) Carlos Vásquez, María Constanza Lobos and Sebastián Rojas

We think about how the forest follows its course independent of our actions and how, in the face of the prohibition to go out (COVID-19), we project ourselves into it through memories and virtuality, familiar imageries that we can produce from machine learning.

Las voces

Marta Carolina Moya Fierro

Las voces

Dry pastel

Marta Carolina Moya Fierro

Sounds emitted by different creatures that inhabit and make up the forest ecosystem; the way in which they relate and make up a whole from their individuality.

Bleach

Javiera Depassier

Bleach

Blender/Premiere

Javiera Depassier

A visual experiment to question the usual form of representation of forest nature towards one about its mortuary dimension.

Bosque en movimiento

Rocío Contreras, Gonzalo López

Bosque en movimiento

2D stop-motion animation in oil painting, processed in Vegas pro

Rocío Contreras, Gonzalo López

We give our energies to receive something that has no name or description, something that we understand when we are there.

The system (a moment, 10'')

Verónica Díaz-Muñiz

The system (a moment, 10'')

Modul8, Premier

Verónica Díaz-Muñiz

Nature is conflict and contradiction in itself. Life and death are interrelated in dialogue, where both polarities are in continuous negotiation, where life and death are constantly pedaling.

Raíces

Matías Vallejo

Raíces

Video feedback, CCD camera, CRT monitor, digital mixer, VHS

Matías Vallejo

Life is maintained through symbiotic relationships; a hidden, multidirectional system. The inputs are connected to the outputs, a camera records its own monitor.

atenea11

Valentina Maldonado

atenea11

After effects/premiere/Vroid

Valentina Maldonado

An avatar of the artist herself, who creates this feminine being to project her limited sense of orientation within a forest.

FULVA

Camilo Ignacio Navarro Briones, Alejandro Enrique Chaparro Figueras

FULVA

Stop motion

Camilo Ignacio Navarro Briones, Alejandro Enrique Chaparro Figueras

As ecological ghosts we fold and unfold fragments of bodies –whose limits are not skin demarcations but living memory– in a breath of the forest, in a movement that transforms our humanity into perennial spectral communities.